Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube

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Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube



VIENNA (Reuters) - Libya's former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been found floating dead in the River Danube in Austria, police said on Sunday. Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last year several months after opponents of Muammar Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan leader and begun a rebellion. As NOC chairman since 2006, Ghanem helped steer Libya's oil policy and held the high-profile job of representing Libya at OPEC meetings, often visiting Vienna for meetings in that role. ...









Nokia in advanced talks to sell luxury Vertu unit: FT



A Vertu Signature mobile phone costing over 9,500 euros is displayed in HelsinkiLONDON (Reuters) - Cellphone maker Nokia is in advanced talks to sell its UK subsidiary Vertu to private equity group Permira , the Financial Times reported. Nokia, which last week had its credit rating cut to "junk" status by ratings agency Standard & Poor's, will raise about 200 million euros ($265.19 million) from a potential sale, the FT said in a piece published on its website on Sunday. People familiar with the talks were cited as saying Goldman Sachs was advising to oversee the sale, but said the outcome was not yet certain. Vertu and Permira were not available for comment. ...












Golf-Els and Dufner in playoff for New Orleans Classic



April 29 (Reuters) - South African Ernie Els and overnightleader Jason Dufner of the United States took the New OrleansClassic into a sudden-death playoff in Avondale, Louisiana, onSunday. The duo finished the regulation 72 holes on 19-under-par269, Els eagling the seventh on his way to a five-under 67 atthe TPC Louisiana where Dufner narrowly missed a 10-foot birdieputt at the last to close with a 70. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing byFrank Pingue)






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